Re:"Is This Project Still Maintained?"
by JohnFen on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:36PM
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I disagree. Open source maintainers owe nothing to anybody unless they've explicitly made some sort of commitment/promise beyond just releasing something under an OSS license.
> But also one should not pull dependencies willy-nilly especially if one is building business on top of that.
If you're building a business, you want to avoid all such dependencies as much as possible, open source or not. The big advantage to using open source code, though, is that you don't have to rely on someone else -- not even the maintainer -- to keep things going for you. You can maintain it in-house and eliminate that external dependency.
> But also one should not pull dependencies willy-nilly especially if one is building business on top of that.
If you're building a business, you want to avoid all such dependencies as much as possible, open source or not. The big advantage to using open source code, though, is that you don't have to rely on someone else -- not even the maintainer -- to keep things going for you. You can maintain it in-house and eliminate that external dependency.